Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm glad to have the interjections from the two Queensland senators here, because they're both products of the union movement, they are both controlled by the union movement and they are both funded by the union movement. If they will get up here and tell me that the union movement is not running a campaign in Queensland that says, 'Put the LNP last!'—in other words, preference One Nation before the LNP—then I will take that down and write it in gold every day between now and the Queensland state election.

I saw them in Cairns. I've seen them in Townsville with these placards—'Put the LNP last!'—which means Labor voters preference One Nation before the LNP. What they do is their own business, but it is hypocritical for Labor politicians to get up here and blame the LNP for preferencing One Nation when, in fact, the people that run and fund the ALP have workers out today, as we speak, on pre-poll—the CFMEU is out in droves in the electorate of Burdekin, six of them at a time, saying, 'Put the LNP last!' which means, 'We're urging you to support One Nation in a preference before the LNP'.

This is despicable. It is deliberately misleading, and it is a typical Labor rort in Queensland. The Labor Party say, 'We're not doing it,' but the Labor Party don't run the campaign in Queensland, and they don't fund the campaign in Queensland. The Labor Party do not have the men and women on the polling booths in Queensland. They're all the union thugs from the CFMEU and elsewhere, and they are the ones who are handing out how-to-vote cards saying, 'Put the LNP last!'—in other words, preference One Nation over the LNP.

I conclude where I started, again, to make it very clear that the LNP in the electorate of Thuringowa, which Senator Moore used in her questions, will be preferencing the ALP before preferencing the One Nation candidate. (Time expired)